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@csinva_

• linear algebra
• matrix calculus
• probability
• numpy/matplotlib

http://www.eecs189.org/

1. problems + data
2. model
3. loss function
4. optimization algorithm

• regression
• classification
• density estimation
• dimensionality reduction

• supervised
• ~semi-supervised
• reinforcement
• unsupervised

• what problems do they solve?
• how "complex" are they? (bias/variance)
• discriminative or generative?

• result of optimization is a set of parameters
• parameters vs. hyperparameters

• training vs. testing error
• why do we need cross-validation?
• example: train, validate, test

• nonsingular = invertible = nonzero determinant = null space of zero $\implies$ square
  • $\implies$ rank = dimension
  • ill-conditioned matrix - close to being singular - very small determinant

• $L_p-$norms: $||x||_p = (\sum_i |x_i|^p)^{1/p}$
• $||x||$ usually means $||x||_2$
  • $||x||^2 = x^Tx$

• nuclear norm: $||X||_* = \sum_i \sigma_i$
• frobenius norm = euclidean norm: $||X||_F^2 = \sqrt{\sum_i \sigma_i^2} $
• spectral norm = $L_2$ -norm: $||X||_2 = \underset{\max}{\sigma}(X)$

$|x^T y| \leq ||x||_2 ||y||_2$

equivalent to the triangle inequality $||x+y||_2^2 \leq (||x||_2 + ||y||_2)^2$

• $f(E[X]) \leq E[f(X)]$ for convex f

• eigenvalue eqn: $Ax = \lambda x \implies (A-\lambda I)x=0$
  • $\det(A-\lambda I) = 0$ yields characteristic polynomial

• diagonalization = eigenvalue decomposition = spectral decomposition
• assume A (nxn) is symmetric
  • $A = Q \Lambda Q^T$
  • Q := eigenvectors as columns, Q is orthonormal
  • $\Lambda$ diagonal

• only diagonalizable if n independent eigenvectors
• how does evd relate to invertibility?

nxp matrix: $X=U \Sigma V^T$

• cols of U (nxn) are eigenvectors of $XX^T$
• cols of V (pxp) are eigenvectors of $X^TX$
• r singular values on diagonal of $\Sigma$ (nxp)
  • square roots of nonzero eigenvalues of both $XX^T$ and $X^TX$

• evd
  • not always orthogonal columns
  • complex eigenvalues
  • only square, not always possible
• svd
  • orthonormal columns
  • real/nonnegative eigenvalues
• symmetric matrices: eigenvalues real, eigenvectors orthogonal

• expressions when $A \in \mathbb{S}$
  • $\det(A) = \prod_i \lambda_i$
  • $tr(A) = \sum_i \lambda_i$
  • $\underset{\max}{\lambda}(A) = \sup_{x \neq 0} \frac{x^T A x}{x^T x}$
  • $\underset{\min}{\lambda}(A) = \inf_{x \neq 0} \frac{x^T A x}{x^T x}$

• defn 1: all eigenvalues are nonnegative
• defn 2: $x^TAx \geq 0 :\forall x \in R^n$

• vectors: $x \preceq y$ means x is less than y elementwise
• matrices: $X \preceq Y$ means $Y-X$ is PSD
  • $v^TXv \leq v^TYv :: \forall v$

• gradient vector $\nabla_x f(x)$- partial derivatives with respect to each element of function

function f: $\mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^m$ Jacobian matrix : $$\mathbf J= \begin{bmatrix} \dfrac{\partial \mathbf{f}}{\partial x_1} & \cdots & \dfrac{\partial \mathbf{f}}{\partial x_n} \end{bmatrix}$$

$$= \begin{bmatrix} \dfrac{\partial f_1}{\partial x_1} & \cdots & \dfrac{\partial f_1}{\partial x_n}\\ \vdots & \ddots & \vdots\\ \dfrac{\partial f_m}{\partial x_1} & \cdots & \dfrac{\partial f_m}{\partial x_n} \end{bmatrix}$$

function f: $\mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}$

$$\mathbf H = \nabla^2 f(x)_{ij} = \frac{\partial^2 f(x)}{\partial x_i \partial x_j}$$

• $x^TAx = tr(xx^TA) = \sum_{i, j} x_iA_{i, j} x_j$
• $tr(AB)$ = sum of elementwise-products
• if X, Y symmetric, $tr(YX) = tr(Y \sum \lambda_i q_i q_i^T)$
• $A=UDV^T = \sum_i \sigma_i u_i v_i^T \implies A^{-1} = VD^{-1} U^T$

• what is regression?
• how does regression fit into the ml framework?

• what is x?
• what is y?
• $\phi(x)$ can be treated like $x$

n = number of data points

d = dimension of each data point

$$n\left\{\vphantom{\begin{bmatrix} X \\ \vdots \\. \end{bmatrix}}\right. \underbrace{ \begin{bmatrix} \vdots \\ y \\ \vdots \end{bmatrix}}_{\displaystyle 1} = n\left\{\vphantom{\begin{bmatrix} X \\ \vdots \\. \end{bmatrix}}\right. \underbrace{ \begin{bmatrix} \vdots \\ \cdots X \cdots\\ \vdots \end{bmatrix}}_{\displaystyle d} \vphantom{\begin{bmatrix} X \\ \vdots\\c \end{bmatrix}} \underbrace{ \begin{bmatrix} \smash{\vdots} \\ w \\ \smash\vdots \end{bmatrix}}_{\displaystyle 1} \left.\vphantom{\begin{bmatrix} X \\ \smash \vdots \\. \end{bmatrix}}\right\}d$$

$\mathbf{\hat{y}} = \mathbf{X} \mathbf{\hat{w}}$

• $\hat{w}_{OLS} = (X^TX)^{-1}X^Ty$
• 2 derivations: least squares, orthogonal projection

$\hat w_{RIDGE} = (X^TX \color{red}{+ \lambda I})^{-1}X^Ty$

• assume a true underlying model
• ex. $Y_i \sim \mathcal N(\theta^TX_i, \sigma^2)$
• this is equivalent to $P(Y_i|X_i; \theta) = \mathcal N(\theta^TX_i, \sigma^2)$

$\overbrace{p(\theta \vert x)}^{\text{posterior}} = \frac{\overbrace{p(x\vert\theta)}^{\text{likelihood}} \overbrace{p(\theta)}^{\text{prior}}}{p(x)}$

$\mathcal L = p(data | \theta)$~ product over all n examples

• $p(x|\theta)$?
• $p(y|x; \theta)$?
• $p(x, y | \theta)$?
• $\to$ depends on the problem + model

• $\hat{\theta}_{MLE} = \underset{\theta}{\text{argmax}} : \mathcal{L}$
• associated with frequentist school of thought

• write likelihood (product of probabilities)
• usually take log to turn product into a sum
• take derivative and set to zero to maximize (assuming convexity)

• $\hat{\theta}_{MAP} = \underset{\theta}{argmax} : p(\theta\vert x) = \underset{\theta}{argmax} : p(x\vert \theta) p(\theta) \\ = \underset{\theta}{argmax} : [ \log : p(x\vert\theta) + \log : p(\theta) ]$
  • $p(x)$ disappears because it doesn't depend on $\theta$
• associated with bayesian school of thought

• $\hat{\theta}_{MLE} = \underset{\theta}{argmax} : \overbrace{p(x|\theta)}^{\text{likelihood}}$
• $\hat{\theta}_{MAP} = \underset{\theta}{argmax} : \overbrace{p(\theta\vert x)}^{\text{posterior}} = \underset{\theta}{argmax} : p(x\vert \theta) \color{cadetblue}{\overbrace{p(\theta)}^{\text{prior}}}$
  • $\hat{\theta}_{\text{Bayes}} = E_\theta \: p(\theta|x) $

• bias of a model: $E[\hat{f}(x) - f(x)]$
  • expectation over drawing new training sets from same distr.
• could also have bias of a point estimate: $E[\hat{\theta} - \theta]$

• "estimation error"
• variance of a model: $V[\hat{f}(x)] = E\left[\big(\hat{f}(x) - E[\hat{f}(x)]\big)^2\right]$
  • expectation over training sets with fixed x

• mean-squared error of model: $E[(\hat{f}(x) - f(x))^2]$
  • = bias$^2$ + variance
  • = $E[\hat{f}(x) - f(x)]^2$ + $E[(\hat{f(x)} - E[\hat{f(x)}])^2]$

• $p(x\vert\mu, \Sigma) = \frac{1}{(2\pi )^{n/2} \vert\Sigma\vert^{1/2}} \exp\left[ -\frac{1}{2} (x-\mu)^T \Sigma^{-1} (x-\mu) \right]$
  • $\mu$ is mean vector
  • $\Sigma$ is covariance matrix

• $\hat \mu, \hat \Sigma = argmax : P(x_1, ..., x_n|\mu, \Sigma)$
• $\hat \mu = \frac{1}{n} \sum x_i$
• $\hat \Sigma = \frac{1}{n} \sum (x_ i - \hat \mu)(x_i - \hat \mu)^T$

• weight certain points more $\omega_i$
• $\hat{w}_\text{wls} = argmin \left( \sum \omega_i (y_i - x_i^T w)^2\right)$
• $= (X^T\Omega X)^{-1}X^T\Omega y$

• noise variables are not independent

add i.i.d. gaussian noise in x and y - regularization

• $\hat{w}_{TLS} = (X^TX - \sigma^2 I)^{-1}X^Ty$
  • here, $\sigma$ is last singular value of $[X : y]$

orthogonal dimensions that maximize variance of $X$

X -= np.mean(X, axis=0) #zero-center data (nxd) 
cov = np.dot(X.T, X) / X.shape[0] #get cov. matrix (dxd) 
U, D, V = np.linalg.svd(cov) #compute svd, (all dxd) 
X_2d = np.dot(X, U[:, :2]) #project in 2d (nx2)

• eigenvalue represents prop. of explained variance: $\sum \lambda_i = tr(\Sigma) = \sum Var(X_i)$
• use svd
• adaptive PCA is faster (sequential)

• linearly independent dimensions that maximize correlation between $X, Y$

• invariant to scalings / affine transformations of X, Y

  

• reformulate the problem to be computationally efficient + nonlinear
  • matrix inversion is ~$O(dim^3)$
• $\hat{w} = (\color{red}{\underbrace{X^TX}_{dxd}} + \lambda I)^{-1}X^Ty$ ~ faster when $\color{red}{d << n}$
• $\hat{w} = X^T(\color{red}{\underbrace{XX^T}_{nxn}} + \lambda I)^{-1}y$ ~ faster when $\color{red}{n << d}$

• $\phi_i^T\phi_j = \phi(x_i)^T \phi(x_j)$

• linear kernel: $\widehat{w} = X^T(XX^T + \lambda I)^{-1}y$
• generic kernel: $\widehat{w} = \mathbf \phi^T(\mathbf \phi\mathbf \phi^T + \lambda I)^{-1}y$
  • at test time, $\widehat{y}(x) = \phi(x) \mathbf \phi^T(\mathbf \phi\mathbf \phi^T + \lambda I)^{-1}y$
  • only requires kernel products!

• $\mathbf{x} = [x_1, x_2]$
• $\phi(\mathbf x) = \begin{bmatrix} x_1^2 & x_2^2 &\sqrt{2}x_1x_2 & \sqrt{2}x_1 & \sqrt{2}x_2 &1\end{bmatrix}^T $

$k(\mathbf{x}, \mathbf{z}) = \underbrace{\phi(\mathbf x)^T \phi (\mathbf z)}_{\text{O(augmented feature space)}} = \underbrace{(\mathbf x^T \mathbf z+ 1)^2}_{\text{O(original feature space + log(degree))}}$

• another ex. rbf kernel: $k(\mathbf x, \mathbf z) = \exp(-\gamma \vert \vert \mathbf x - \mathbf z \vert \vert ^2 )$

• note, what discussed here is different from the nonparametric technique of kernel regression:
• $\widehat{y}_h(x)=\frac{\sum_{i=1}^n K_h(x-x_i) y_i}{\sum_{j=1}^nK_h(x-x_j)} $
  • K is a kernel with a bandwidth h

• minimizing things
• ex. $\underset{\theta}{arg min} : \sum \big(y_i - f(x_i; \theta)\big)^2$

• Hessian $\nabla^2 f(x) \succeq 0 : \forall x$

• $f(x_2) \geq f(x_1) + \nabla f(x_1) (x_2 - x_1)$

$\color{purple}{t f(x_1) + (1-t) f(x_2)} \geq f(tx_1 + (1-t)x_2)$

$0 \preceq \underset{\text{strong convexity}}{mI} \preceq \nabla^2 f(x) \preceq \underset{\text{smoothness}}{MI}$

M-smooth = Lipschitz continuous gradient: $||\nabla f(x_2) - \nabla f(x_1)|| \leq M||x_2-x_1||\quad \forall x_1,x_2$

| Lipschitz continuous f | M-smooth | | :-- | --:- | | | |

• validation error stops changing
• changes become small enough

• $$\theta^{(t+1)} = \theta^{(t)} - \alpha_t \nabla f(\theta^{(t)}) + \color{cornflowerblue}{\underset{\text{momentum}}{\beta_t (f(\theta^{(t)}) - f(\theta^{(t-1)}))}}$$

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• apply to find roots of f'(x): $\theta^{(t+1)} = \theta^{(t)} - \nabla^2 f(\theta^{(t)})^{-1}\nabla f(\theta^{(t)})$

• modify newton's method assuming we are minimizing nonlinear least squares
• $\theta^{(t+1)} = \theta^{(t)} - \nabla^2 f(\theta^{(t)})^{-1}\nabla f(\theta^{(t)})$
• $\theta^{(t+1)} = \theta^{(t)} + \color{cadetblue}{(J^TJ)}^{-1} \color{cadetblue}{J^T\Delta y}$ $\quad J$ is the Jacobian

• it predicts: vision, audio, text, ~rl
• it's flexible: little/no feature engineering
• it generalizes, despite having many parameters

• loss function: $L(x, y; w) = (\hat{y} - y)^2$
• goal: $\frac{\partial L}{\partial w_i}$ for all weights
• calculate efficiently with backprop

also see nn demo playground

from numpy import exp, array, random
X = array([[0, 0, 1], [1, 1, 1], [1, 0, 1], [0, 1, 1]])
Y = array([[0, 1, 1, 0]]).T
w = 2 * random.random((3, 1)) - 1
for iteration in range(10000):
    Yhat = 1 / (1 + exp(-(X @ w)))
    w += X.T @ (Y - Yhat) * Yhat * (1 - Yhat)
print(1 / (1 + exp(-(array([1, 0, 0] @ w))))

import tensorflow as tf
import torch

• discriminative: $p(y|x)$
• generative: $p(x, y) = p(x|y) p(y)$

• risk: $\mathbb E_{(X,Y)}[L(f(x), y) ] = \sum_x p(x) \sum_y L(f(x), y) p(y|x)$
• bayes classifier: $f^*(x) = \underset{y}{argmin} : \underset{y}{\sum} :L(y, y') p(y'|x)$
  • given x, pick y that minimizes risk

• with 0-1 error: $f^*(x) = \underset{y}{argmax} : p(y|x) = \underset{y}{argmax} : p(x|y) \cdot p(y)$
  • let y be sentiment (positive or negative)
  • let x be words

• $\sigma(z) = \frac{1}{1+e^{-z}}$
• $P(\hat{Y}=1|x; w) = \sigma(w^Tx)$
  • threshold to predict
  • not really regression

• log-loss = cross-entropy: $-\sum_x p(x) : log : q(x)$
  • $p(x)$ true $y$
  • $q(x)$ predicted probability of y
• corresponds to MLE for Bernoulli

• one-hot encoding: $[1, 0, 0]$, $[0, 1, 0]$, $[0, 0, 1]$
• softmax function: $\sigma(\mathbf{z})_i = \frac{\exp(z_i)}{\sum_j \exp z_j}$
• loss function still cross-entropy

• no closed form, but convex loss $\implies$ convex optimization!
  • minimize loss on cross-entropy (where p(x) is modelled by sigmoid)
  • or maximize likelihood

• $\hat{y} = \underset{y}{\text{argmax}} : p(y|\mathbf{x}) = \underset{y}{\text{argmax}} : P(\mathbf{x}|y)p(y)$
  • $P(\mathbf{x}|y)\sim \mathcal N (\mathbf \mu_y, \Sigma_y)$: there are |Y| of these
  • $p(y) = \frac{n_y}{n}$: 1 of these

• differences
  • generative
  • treats each class independently
• same
  • form for posterior (sigmoid / softmax)

want to maximize complete log-likelihood $l (\theta; x, z) = log : p(x,z|\theta)$ but don't know latent z

• expectation step - values of z filled in
• maximization step - parameters are adjusted based on z

$x$: observed vars, $z$: latent vars, $q$: assignments to z

• E: $q^{(t+1)} (z|x) = \underset{q}{argmin} : D(q||\theta^{(t)})$
  • lower bound on complete log-likelihood (pf: Jensen's inequality)
• M: $\theta^{(t+1)} = \underset{\theta}{argmin} : D(q^{(t+1)} || \theta)$

note 20 is good

• doesn't find best solution
• unstable when data not linearly separable

$\hat{y} =\begin{cases} 1 &\text{if } w^Tx +b \geq 0 \\ -1 &\text{otherwise}\end{cases}$

decision boundary: {$x: w^Tx - b = 0$}

$D = \frac{|w^T(z-x_0)|}{||w||_2} = \frac{|w^Tz-b|}{||w||_2}$

$\begin{align} \underset{m, w, b}{\max} \quad &m \\ s.t. \quad &y_i \frac{(w^Tx_i-b)}{||w||_2} \geq m \: \forall i\\ &m \geq 0\end{align}$

• let $m = 1 / ||w||_2 \implies$unique soln

$\underset{w, b}{\min}\quad \frac{1}{2} ||w||_2^2 \\s.t. \quad y_i (w^Tx_i - b) \geq 1\: \forall i$

$\begin{align}\underset{w, b, \color{cadetblue}\xi}{\min}\quad &\frac{1}{2} ||w||_2^2 \color{cadetblue}{+C\sum_i \xi_i}\\s.t. \quad &y_i (w^Tx_i + b) \geq 1 \color{cadetblue}{-\xi_i}\: \forall i\\ &\color{cadetblue}{\xi_i \geq 0 \: \forall i}\end{align}$

can rewrite by absorbing $\xi$ constraints

$\underset{w, b}{\min} \quad \frac{1}{2}||w||^2 + C\sum_i \max(1-y_i(w^Tx_i - b), 0)$

• svm: hinge loss
• log. regression: log loss
• perceptron: perceptron loss

• dual function $g(\lambda, \nu)$ always concave

  • $\lambda \succeq 0 \implies g(\lambda, \nu) \leq p^*$

• $(\lambda, \nu)$ dual feasible if

  1. $\lambda \succeq 0$
  2. $(\lambda, \nu) \in dom : g$

• weak duality: $d^\ast \leq p^*$

  • optimal duality gap: $p^\ast - d^*$

• strong duality: $d^\ast = p^\ast$ ~ requires more than convexity

• no training, slow testing
• nonparametric: huge memory
• how to pick distance?
• poor in high-dimensions
• theoretical error rate

$\underset{w}{\min} \quad ||Xw-y||_2^2\\s.t.\quad||w||_0 \leq k$

lasso: $\underset{w}{\min} \quad ||Xw-y||_2^2 + \color{cadetblue}{ \lambda ||w||_1}$

• $\color{cadetblue}{\Delta = \lambda}$

ridge: $\underset{w}{\min} \quad ||Xw-y||_2^2 + \color{cadetblue}{\lambda ||w||_2^2}$

• $\color{cadetblue}{\Delta = 2 \lambda w}$

• coordinate descent: requires jointly convex
  • closed form for each $w_i$
  • iterate, might re-update $w_i$

• start with all 0s
• iteratively choose/update $w_i$ to minimize $||y-Xw||^2$

• at each step, update all nonzero weights

• greedy - use metric to pick attribute
  • split on this attribute then repeat
  • high variance

maximize H(parent) - [weighted average] $\cdot$ H(children)

• often picks too many attributes

• maximize $I(X; Y) \equiv$ minimize $H(Y|X)$

• info gain (approximate w/ gini impurity)
• misclassification rate
• (40-40); could be: (30-10, 10-30), (20-40, 20-0)

• depth
• metric
• node proportion
• pruning

• multiple classifiers
• bagging = bootstrap aggregating: each classifier uses subset of datapoints
• feature randomization: each split uses subset of features

• consensus
• average
• adaboost

• stop splitting at some point and apply linear regression

• missing values - fill in with most common val / probabilistically
• continuous values - split on thresholds

sequentially train many weak learners to approximate a function

• initialize weights to 1/n
• iterate
  • classify weighted points
  • re-weight points to emphasize errors
• finally, output error-weighted sum of weak learners

• derived using exponential loss risk minimization (freund and schapire)
• test error can keep decreasing once training error is at 0

• weak learners applied in sequence
• subtract gradient of loss with respect to current total model
  • for squared loss, just the residual
• models need not be differentiable

• very popular implementation of gradient boosting
• uses 2nd order derivative of the loss function, L1/L2 regularization
• can be parallelized